Biology:Cobble elimia

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Cobble elimia
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.175299 - Elimia vanuxemiana (Lea, 1843) - Pleuroceridae - Mollusc shell.jpeg

Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)[2]
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Elimia
Species:
E. vanuxemiana
Binomial name
Elimia vanuxemiana
I. Lea, 1843
Synonyms[3]
  • Melania rubicunda Goniobasis negata
  • I. Lea, 1862 I. Lea, 1845
  • I. Lea, 1861 Melania vanuxemiana
  • Melania pergrata I. Lea, 1843
  • Melania arctata I. Lea, 1861
  • Reeve, 1861 Melania vanuxemiana var. fragosa

The cobble elimia, scientific name Elimia vanuxemiana, is a species of freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod molluscs with an operculum in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to Alabama in the United States.[2]

As of 2000, the species was considered extinct by the IUCN.[1] It was rediscovered in the wild in 2005,[4] but is still considered critically imperiled.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bogan, A.E. (2000). "Elimia vanuxemiana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000: e.T7587A12833492. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T7587A12833492.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/7587/12833492. Retrieved 15 November 2021. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 NatureServe (2018). "Elimia vanuxemiana". Arlington, Virginia: NatureServe. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.115100/Elimia_vanuxemiana. 
  3. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Elimia vanuxemiana (I. Lea, 1843). Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1116986 on 2023-10-13
  4. ↑ Mobile River Basin Coalition

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